The Provincial Court of Madrid sentenced Jesus Pradales to fourteen years in prison for intentional homicide of Juana Channelwhom he killed in the early hours of February 23, 2003 in an apartment in Ciudad Lineal during an argument.
This is indicated in a sentence to which he had access Europe Pressin which the confessed murderer is punished as the perpetrator responsible for a crime of homicidewith the aggravating circumstance of kinship. The convicted person must compensate the son of the deceased with 118,000 euros, and each of his brothers for a sum of 22,000 euros.
The sentence comes after a popular jury declared on September 26 Jesus guilty of intentional homicide of his then partner and ruled out that it was an accidental death.
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The members of the jury thus supported the thesis of the prosecutor and the lawyer of SOS Desaparecidos, Juan Manuel Medinawho maintains that the deceased did not die accidentally after the accused pushed her away with his arm to prevent her from attacking him.
The prosecutor and the lawyer for the private prosecution requested a sentence of fifteen years in prison for the crime of intentional homicide with the aggravating circumstance of kinship, while the defense demanded acquittal because it was an accidental death.
In its judgment, the court emphasizes that “one must take into account the seriousness of the harm suffered by family memberss, linked to the experience of suddenly losing a mother and a sister, it was proven during the trial that the son who lived with her had to leave the house because he could not pay the rent, and that he even died without having any news of what had happened to his mother.
The magistrates refuse to consider a mitigating circumstance of confession, since “the accused in no way fulfills any of the required conditions, since he never appeared himself before the authority to express what he had does, and it is only when he is arrested and “faced with the overwhelming evidence found regarding the remains of the person who had been his romantic partner, when he gives a version of what happened, only acknowledging having dismembered Juana Canal.
accidental death
The accused claimed at trial that his companion of five months had died accidentally in the apartment where they shared in Ciudad Lineal In the early hours of February 23, 2003, he hit the ground after pushing her away with his arm to prevent her from hitting him with her fists. According to her account, that night Juana was more aggressive than usual because she was under the influence of alcohol.
In his final statement, the prosecutor emphasized that Juana’s death was not “accidental”, but the “result of an aggressive action in which Jesús assumed the risk” of this result.
“In 26 hours he dismembers her, which is not easy, travels 170 kilometers, digs two holes, buries the skeletal remains, returns and leaves the note to Sergio, Juana’s eldest son, in which he writes that her mother took some pills and it went away,” he explained.
